G A JackmanDivision of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine and the Children s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, USAPediatrics 107:1247-50. 2001

..Each year, thousands of children are injured or killed from unintentional gunshot wounds. Discovering a gun while playing in the home places children at risk of being injured by the firearm...

Seeing is believing: what do boys do when they find a real gun?

G A JackmanDivision of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine and the Children s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, USAPediatrics 107:1247-50. 2001

..To determine how boys behave when they find a handgun in a presumably safe environment and to compare parental expectations of their child's interest in real guns with this observed behavior...